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Churchill The Life: An Authorised Pictorial Biography by Max Arthur
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, no one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston's undistinguished academic career to his front-line experiences as a soldier and journalist whether in India, Sudan or Cuba, and during the Boer War or in the trenche ...Show more
Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Dambusters raid is an unforgettable event in British military history and has passed into legend. On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered in the dusk at RAF Scampton. Their brief was to fly at night across occupied Europe and drop specially designed 'bouncing' bombs at a mere 60 fee ...Show more
Dambusters : A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
DoP - November 2008 - United Kingdom On the 17th May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring and high risk - a night raid on three crucial and heavily defended dams deep in the heart of Germany. The raiders would have ...Show more
Faces of World War I: The Tragedy of the Great War in Words and Pictures by Max Arthur
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
This title explores the tragedy of the Great War in words and pictures, covering all aspects and armies who fought. Charting the Allies' entry into warfare in 1914, Max Arthur tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of slaughter and suffering. He b ...Show more
Fighters Against Fascism by Max Arthur
$27.00 NZD
Category: Military
Personal stories from the soldiers who volunteered to fight for a cause they passionately believed in The Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936-9, was brutal and intense, claiming well over 500,000 lives. Rightly predicting that the rise of Fascism in Spain could develop into a more global conflict, ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A landmark book using unique Imperial War Museum archive material, in which the story of WWI is told in the words of the men who were there.In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewin ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The original edition of this landmark book brought history to life in a way that had never been done before - through the words of ordinary men and women. Their eyewitness accounts tell the story of the war in a way that no other history title can. Now this bestselling book has been edited, adapted and ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers spent hundreds of hours digging deep into this u ...Show more
Last Post: The Final Word from Our First World War Soldiers by Max Arthur
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Gentleman Bastards Ser.
LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the First World War has been broken. Max Arthur, a skilled interviewer, took the very last chance we had to ask questions of t ...Show more
Last of the Few by Max Arthur
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
After the fall of France to the German army in May 1940, Hitler set his sights on the invasion of Britain. Within weeks he had a vast battle fleet ranged along the French coast. But his biggest obstacle was the small and under-resourced Royal Air Force. Hitler knew that he must gain control of the skies ...Show more
Lest We Forget : Forgotten Voices from 1914-1945 by Max Arthur
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
This skillfully compiled anthology draws on the phenomenally successful "Forgotten Voices" series. "Lest We Forget" brings together first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War, to vividly illustrate the impact of war. Told in the actual words of the men, women and children who li ...Show more
Lost Voices of the Edwardians by Max Arthur
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era. The Edwardian era is often eclipsed in the popular imagination by the Victorian age that preceded it and the First World War that followed. In this wonde ...Show more